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YouTube Studio simulator: a creator dashboard that runs on your phone
Search for a YouTube Studio simulator and three different things come back: a game about being a YouTuber, a calculator that projects a channel, and a dashboard showing numbers you choose. This is the third, as a working app: five tabs, a chart, comments you can answer and a subscriber count that climbs by notification. Here is what it works out, what moves, how to stage a milestone, and what it will never be.
Pozer team · Updated · 9 min read
First, the line you don’t cross
A creator dashboard is the screen sponsors, viewers and other creators take on trust, which is why it works in a skit and does harm anywhere else. This simulator is a prop for skits, parody, film scenes and channel mockups, where the audience knows or is told the channel is invented. It must never be shown to anyone as a real channel’s numbers: not to a sponsor or a brand, not to sell a course, coaching or a channel method, not with an application for a loan or a lease, and not as a milestone you post as your own. That is prohibited by our acceptable use policy, and accounts that do it are closed. If the scene is a prank on someone who knows you, the reveal belongs in the same scene.
Three things called a YouTube Studio simulator
- A YouTuber game. You invent a channel, upload pretend videos and watch it grow. Fun, and nothing to do with filming a dashboard.
- A projection tool. A calculator that estimates what a channel’s analytics might look like at a size it hasn’t reached. Useful for planning, and it hands you figures, not a screen anyone can hold.
- A dashboard for the camera. A creator analytics app showing the channel you describe, for a scene that needs one. That’s this page.
One thing is none of the three. A download or a web page that calls itself a fake Studio and asks you to sign in with your channel’s Google account is after the account. A prop never needs your login.
Pozer’s YouTube Studio-style template is an original design in the style of a creator analytics dashboard, with no YouTube name, logo or artwork and no connection to YouTube or to any channel. You fill it in in the editor, publish it and get a link; added to a phone’s home screen it opens fullscreen from its own icon, under the name you gave it. Building it, installing it and filming it are free.
What it works out, and what you type
You type the channel: Total subscribers, then Views, Watch time (hours), New subscribers and Estimated revenue for the Period you pick. The Dashboard prints the subscriber total in full, 512,483 on the defaults, and shortens the tiles to 4.3M, 284.5K, +18.4K and $38,420.75. From there the app does several sums for you.
- One gap sets four verdicts. You type a single Gap vs usual, against the metric named in Charted metric. The other cards keep the same proportion. The default gap of 1,340,000 on Views prints 1.3M more than usual; the same share of watch time is 88.7K, and of revenue $11,984.13, each worded more or less by its own setting. A card set to Same as usual says just that.
- The chart adds up. The twelve Views trend bars you drag become 28 daily readings with a weekly swing, scaled so the curve’s total is the figure printed above it.
- Realtime is a slice of the period. The panel on Analytics shows two days’ share of the charted figure: 306.9K under Last 48 hours · Views with the Period on Last 28 days, and 1.2M if you switch it to Last 7 days.
- Uploads grade themselves. Each row under Latest published content opens to Ranking by views, Views and Average percentage viewed, and the badges follow the numbers: a rank in the top third of Ranked against last earns the up arrow, and so does an average of 55% or more.
- Earn measures the month. A bar fills towards the Payment minimum of $100. The default September earnings of $29,874.12 fill it; a channel on $41.20 gets a bar two-fifths full.
What it leaves to you is whether the channel is plausible. Estimated revenue and Views are separate fields, and the defaults work out at $8.94 for every thousand views. Double the views without touching the revenue and that halves. The field-by-field mockup guide has the sums for making a channel agree with itself.
Dashboard. The defaults: 512,483 subscribers over four tiles, each with its verdict badge.
Analytics. The Views card reads 1.3M more than usual, with Realtime at 306.9K beneath it.
The part that moves: alerts
A picture can’t show a channel growing. In the installed app, hold two fingers still on the screen until Edit appears, tap it and find Alerts. There are three kinds, and each sends real notifications to that phone, titled with your Channel name:
- Subscribers alerts read: 8 new subscribers · You’re at 100,000. Each one is added to Total subscribers and to the Subscribers tile.
- Views alerts read: +1,200 views · “I tried this for 30 days” is at 1,841,200. They land on the first upload and on the channel’s Views, and watch time, likes and comments keep pace.
- Earnings alerts read: You earned $84.37 · $29,958.49 this month. Each one is added to Estimated revenue and to the month’s earnings on Earn.
Choose a kind, set the range, the gap under Every and the length under For, then tap Turn on alerts and allow notifications. Nothing changes while the app is on screen; the figures catch up when it next comes to the front, or when you pull down on the Dashboard. On iPhone, alerts need iOS 16.4 or later and the app on the Home Screen. Free alerts end in SIMULATED, like the mark on the app, and Pro removes it.
Stage a milestone, to the second
The total in each Subscribers alert is plain addition, so a milestone can be made to arrive on a cue. Here is the hundred-thousand moment for a skit.
- In the editor, set Total subscribers to 99,968 and publish.
- In the installed app, open Edit, find Alerts and choose Subscribers. Under New subscribers each time, type 8 in both boxes. Under Every, set the unit to sec first, then type 10 in both boxes; switching the unit afterwards converts what you typed.
- Tap Turn on alerts, close the panel, lock the phone and set it down in frame. The first alert is sent about eight seconds later and reads You’re at 99,976.
- Three more follow ten seconds apart: 99,984, 99,992 and then “8 new subscribers · You’re at 100,000”, about 38 seconds after the tap.
- Pick the phone up and open the app. The Dashboard’s headline now reads 100,000 or a little past it, since the alerts keep coming until you tap Turn off alerts.
For another take, turn alerts off and tap Reset to published values in Edit: the count goes back to 99,968. Changing the two eights changes the pace; the amounts are whole numbers, and the shortest gap is ten seconds.
Before. Total subscribers typed as 99,968, printed in full.
Four alerts later. The same Dashboard once the app is opened: 100,000.
Three more scenes it can carry
- The video that won’t stop. Views alerts every ten to twenty seconds, the phone face up at a family lunch, and a creator pretending not to look while the first upload climbs past 1,841,200.
- The channel that’s shrinking. New subscribers takes a negative. Type -500 and the Subscribers tile prints -500; choose Subscribers as the Charted metric and the Analytics curve hangs below zero.
- The first dollar. Set Earnings this month under the Payment minimum and run Earnings alerts of a few cents each. Every time the app is opened, the bar on Earn has crept a little closer to $100.
What answers a thumb
All five tabs in the bar open: Dashboard, Content, Analytics, Community and Earn. The chevron on each upload opens and closes it. View all opens every video, every Short or every comment, and View payment activity on Earn lists past payments marked Paid. On Community you can like a comment, heart it, or tap reply, type and post an answer that appears under your channel’s handle.
Some things only look as if they would. The metric cards on Analytics don’t swipe, so pick the one you want with Charted metric before the take. The names across the top of Analytics, from Trends to Revenue, are labels. Realtime says Updating live over bars that hold still. The plus and the bell do nothing, and tapping an upload doesn’t play a video. The guide to the dashboard as an app goes through every control, the install and a take that uses them.
What it will never simulate
- Your real channel. It reads nothing from YouTube and has no sign-in to one.
- An audience. No video is uploaded and nobody watches; views arrive because you scheduled them.
- A change of Period. Switching from Last 28 days to Last 7 days relabels the Dashboard and resizes Realtime, but the totals are the ones you typed.
- Monetisation. The Earn tab is a screen you filled in, not a record of any payment.
- Another creator. Invent the channel, the commenters and their handles, and use thumbnails from your own videos only.
Free apps carry SIMULATED · POZER.COM in fine print on each tab, which in a skit tells viewers the channel is a prop; Pro at US$12.99/mo removes it. If the money is the joke, showing earnings in a skit covers sizing it to the views, and for a still to put in a thumbnail there is analytics for thumbnails. For a channel that answers a thumb, start with the template.
Questions
Is it connected to YouTube or to my channel?
No. It reads nothing from YouTube, has no connection to any channel and never asks for a Google sign-in. It carries no YouTube name, logo or artwork. Every figure, title, comment and payment on it is one you typed or the app worked out from what you typed.
Is there an APK or an app-store download?
No. You build it in a browser and publish it to its own link. On iPhone, open the link in Safari, then Share and Add to Home Screen; on Android, open it in Chrome and choose Install app. It then opens fullscreen from its own icon. Be wary of any download that calls itself a fake Studio and asks for your channel's login.
Is it a YouTuber game?
No. Nothing here plays back: no video gets uploaded, no audience reacts and no decision changes a result. It is a dashboard that shows the channel you describe, for a scene that needs one.
Do the numbers move on their own?
Only when you turn on alerts in the installed app. Each alert adds subscribers, views or earnings, and the dashboard shows the new total the next time the app comes on screen. Otherwise every figure stays where you typed it; the Realtime panel says Updating live, but its bars hold still.
Can I simulate reaching 100,000 subscribers?
Yes, for a skit or a parody. Set Total subscribers just under the mark and run Subscribers alerts of a fixed size, and the notification that reads You're at 100,000 arrives on cue. Posting it as a milestone your real channel reached is presenting simulated numbers as real, which is prohibited.
What does it cost?
Nothing to build, install and film. Free apps carry SIMULATED · POZER.COM in fine print on screen, and Pro at US$12.99/mo removes it.
Can I show it to a sponsor, or as my channel's results?
No. Showing it to anyone as a real channel's numbers, to win a sponsorship or a brand deal, to sell a course, coaching or a channel method, or to support an application for a loan or a lease, is prohibited, and accounts that do it are closed.
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